It’s not perfect, but it’s whole raison d’être is to try to very clearly surface bias annotations of the source in question with any given articles, in addition to which other outlets are reporting the story, also in addition to the ideological spread those other outlets represent. A neat and fairly trivial side effect of this is that it’s super easy to see when stories are being largely pushed or ignored by one particular side, which can often indicate either self-censorship and/or propaganda stories, amongst other things. It’s actually a very interesting media literacy project, and I think it’s a great idea.
What I like about it is the search-by-topic, where it’s pretty good at giving you a whole spread of stories from a ton of different sources about whatever the topic is.
Way better than google’s news tab, which is pretty garbage.
Looks like that’s just a side-effect of the nature of the site. Since it’s necessarily going to end up carrying versions of a story from pretty much anyone, that will sadly include questionable sources like Fox.
Honestly, I think it’s a great idea. I’m bookmarking the site.
A man from Honduras who raped a 13-year-old girl he met online in Virginia and then assaulted an immigration officer attempting to arrest him has been sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors announced on Monday.
Deportation officers have arrested an Ecuadorian man wanted on a child rape charge in his home country who was hiding out in Northampton, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Francisco Lopez-Ramirez, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen living in the United States illegally, was arrested in Provo, Utah, on July 4th around 3:00 p.m.
I just looked, and it’s all the same guy, the same arrest, and the same background, albeit with an emphasis on “OMG ILLEGAL” from the right-biased sites.
I’m sure that given the nature of the site, it sometimes makes mistakes, but this doesn’t look like one of them.
A man from Honduras who raped a 13-year-old girl he met online in Virginia and then assaulted an immigration officer attempting to arrest him has been sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors announced on Monday.
Deportation officers have arrested an Ecuadorian man wanted on a child rape charge in his home country who was hiding out in Northampton, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Francisco Lopez-Ramirez, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen living in the United States illegally, was arrested in Provo, Utah, on July 4th around 3:00 p.m.
Was about to ask the same question. Here’s MBFC on it:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/
Seems like a surprisingly decent source.
It’s not perfect, but it’s whole raison d’être is to try to very clearly surface bias annotations of the source in question with any given articles, in addition to which other outlets are reporting the story, also in addition to the ideological spread those other outlets represent. A neat and fairly trivial side effect of this is that it’s super easy to see when stories are being largely pushed or ignored by one particular side, which can often indicate either self-censorship and/or propaganda stories, amongst other things. It’s actually a very interesting media literacy project, and I think it’s a great idea.
What I like about it is the search-by-topic, where it’s pretty good at giving you a whole spread of stories from a ton of different sources about whatever the topic is.
Way better than google’s news tab, which is pretty garbage.
Aww that makes me sad it isn’t at least highly factually only because of the questionable news sources that are included on a story
Looks like that’s just a side-effect of the nature of the site. Since it’s necessarily going to end up carrying versions of a story from pretty much anyone, that will sadly include questionable sources like Fox.
Honestly, I think it’s a great idea. I’m bookmarking the site.
It is not a decent source and this now makes me question the legitimacy of MBFC. In this post, there are at least three entirely different stories https://ground.news/article/illegal-migrant-convicted-after-raping-child-assaulting-ice-officer_05781e
For anyone with reading comprehension issues…
https://www.newsweek.com/honduran-illegal-immigrant-sentenced-child-sexual-abuse-1922463
https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/ice-arrests-ecuadoran-man-wanted-on-child-rape-charge-in-northampton.html
https://www-origo-hu.translate.goog/888/2024/07/illegalis-migrans-gyerek-eroszak
I just looked, and it’s all the same guy, the same arrest, and the same background, albeit with an emphasis on “OMG ILLEGAL” from the right-biased sites.
I’m sure that given the nature of the site, it sometimes makes mistakes, but this doesn’t look like one of them.
https://www.newsweek.com/honduran-illegal-immigrant-sentenced-child-sexual-abuse-1922463
https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/ice-arrests-ecuadoran-man-wanted-on-child-rape-charge-in-northampton.html
https://www-origo-hu.translate.goog/888/2024/07/illegalis-migrans-gyerek-eroszak
I’m seeing a different list of stories when I follow your link. It may be an A/B sort of thing.